the evening she was told that Mr. and Mrs. Penrhyn were below, she sate up in bed, adjusted her coiffure, and gave orders for them to be admitted immediately, receiving them as her dear children, and inquiring affectionately after little Charles, especially as to "the cutting of his teeth, concerning which she had been in anxiety ever since she went to Rotheles Castle."
"But surely, dear mamma, you have, like us, been delighted by Mary's union with Lord Allerton? there is something in it so singular—I may even say so providential to both parties! atoning to him, poor man, for the miseries an artful and inveigling woman brought upon him, and to her for years of cruel mortification and pining sorrow. I hope my uncle is pleased with it also?"
"We are all pleased with it, of course, exceedingly; it is the kind of connection which all my daughters ought to have made, and would have made, had it taken place at a proper time. However, I do not mean to advert to the past, but I am not well enough to keep up conversation, so I will thank you, my dear Charles, to give me the three hundred pounds which I know Mr. Glentworth has sent me."
"Here are three fifty-pound bills; I gave three others about an hour since to Mr. Palmer, who most handsomely declined receiving any interest."
